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[Locked] Poor name of weblink that is dragged into a stack [Bug #152]
Guest English 10 fabounet [Read]
14 March 2011 à 12:26

Guest, Sunday 13 February 2011 à 16:43

When I drag a url from firefox into a stack, a weblink is created in the stack, but the name it is given is mostly useless.

For example, if I drag the home page of Glx-Dock (http://www.glx-dock.org/index.php) to the stack, I get a link created with the name "index.php".

If I drag the url onto my desktop or onto the gnome panel, I get a link with the name "Glx-Dock / Cairo-Dock - Home", clearly a much better name than "index.php" !

I think Google Chrome might not have this issue with Cairo, but I like to use firefox.

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Cairo v2.2.0-4 OpenGL, Compiz, Gnome.
Ubuntu 10.1

Guest, Sunday 13 February 2011 à 21:18

Hey!
I can reproduce this behavior with Chromium 9.0.597.94, so I guess it's not just Firefox.
+1 for better naming!

matttbe, Sunday 13 February 2011 à 22:42


Subscription date : 24 January 2009
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Yes, it can be interesting

Good idea!

@ fabounet: We can use curl and 'title' tag, something like that
curl glx-dock.org |grep "<title>" | head -n1 |cut -d\> -f2 |cut -d\< -f1

Guest, Monday 14 February 2011 à 14:27

A further enhancement would be for an option to display the favicon of the web page link.

But first, please let's get the naming fixed!

fabounet, Monday 14 February 2011 à 14:37


Subscription date : 30 November 2007
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ok, I open a task for it

matttbe, Monday 14 February 2011 à 15:14


Subscription date : 24 January 2009
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A further enhancement would be for an option to display the favicon of the web page link.
Yes but the favicon is a small icon

fabounet, Monday 14 February 2011 à 15:46


Subscription date : 30 November 2007
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not necessarily (if it's a png like our site, and not a 16x16 ico file; in the latter case, the result will not be good indeed, so we should maybe skip it).

Guest, Tuesday 15 February 2011 à 22:54

Once the naming gets fixed, I'd still like to see a favicon, even if it is poor resolution.
Besides, to show a favicon, I think you will need to add support for the user to define their own icon anyway, so they could use a different icon if the favicon is poor.
I like favicons because glx dock is is icon based - they go together.

Alternatively, why not allow firefox to create a .desktop file in a stack when dragging a firefox url into the stack?
You would have to make sure that clicking on the .desktop file in the stack opens firefox and not a text editor.
The .desktop already supports custom icons.
All I would need to do then is to drag the .desktop files I already have to the stack, and I will have my links with no effort.
(and if the dock can automatically download a favicon, even better!)

fabounet, Wednesday 16 February 2011 à 12:12


Subscription date : 30 November 2007
Messages : 17118
I've added support for better naming, and favicon will follow in a near future
actually I've thought of a nice way: draw the favicon as an emblem.

Guest, Saturday 12 March 2011 à 19:17

(Message added on the task #152)

Just want to bump this, as it has not made it into the task list yet.

This fix will make the stacks much more user friendly.

fabounet, Monday 14 March 2011 à 12:26


Subscription date : 30 November 2007
Messages : 17118
what's missing here ?
correct names and favicons are supported now.

Problems at use | Problèmes à l'utilisation

Subjects Author Language Messages Last message
[Locked] Poor name of weblink that is dragged into a stack [Bug #152]
Guest English 10 fabounet [Read]
14 March 2011 à 12:26


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